Secure commitment to an improvement strategy in food and drink operations

URN: IMPQI305
Business Sectors (Suites): Achieving Food Manufacturing Excellence
Developed by: Improve
Approved on: 31 Dec 2021

Overview

This standard is about the skills and knowledge needed for you to secure commitment to an improvement strategy within your organisation, to support your organisation's drive to improve food and drink operations. This is important in increasing productivity and success of manufacture, processing and supply within the food and drink supply chain. Securing commitment is central to ensuring that an improvement strategy will have the resources, support and agreement it needs to be successfully implemented.

You will need to show and understand how you prepare adequately for securing the commitment in a planned and systematic way, to complement the development and agreement of the improvement strategy. You will need to comply with your company policies for strategic or business planning and take full responsibility for your actions. It involves ensuring that those with responsibility for directing and managing the resultant change and improvement across the business, are committed to delivering the policies, procedures and actions required by the strategy.

This standard applies to you if you are a manager or consultant who has responsibility for securing commitment to an improvement strategy within an organisation, to direct and manage improvement in food and drink operations including manufacturing, processing, packing or supply chain activities.


Performance criteria

You must be able to:


Produce a plan for securing commitment to the improvement strategy 

1. review the implications and requirements of the improvement strategy 
2. draft and agree plans for securing commitment to the strategy with the relevant personnel and stakeholders 
3. discuss and confirm the key objectives, the scope of the plans and the available resources, with relevant personnel and any key stakeholders 
4. make any final changes to plans where necessary and confirm the final plans with the relevant people 

Secure commitment to the improvement strategy 

5. brief relevant personnel and managers about your plans, and clarify their roles and responsibilities 
6. implement your plan for securing commitment, selecting and applying a range of directive tools and techniques appropriate to the needs for negotiating, influencing, persuading and agreeing 
7. communicate progress to management, any key stakeholders and any others on a regular basis
8. identify in the light of progress any required changes to your plan for securing commitment, obtaining agreement from the relevant personnel where necessary 
9. achieve your plans for securing commitment 
10. confirm satisfactory completion of your plan with management and any key stakeholders 

Obtain and provide feedback on securing commitment to the strategy 

11. evaluate the impact of your activities to secure commitment, identifying what lessons can be learned and recognising the contributions of any relevant personnel 
12. seek feedback on the value of your contribution to securing commitment to the strategy from the relevant personnel 
13. provide feedback on your contribution to securing commitment of the strategy to the relevant personnel


Knowledge and Understanding

You need to know and understand:

  1. your organisation's emerging improvement vision, strategy, the rationale for strategy and its change and improvement implications for your organisation
  2. the main models and methods suitable for securing the commitment necessary for improvement to be formally adopted by your organisation, and their advantages and disadvantages
  3. how to identify and make contact with the relevant people and stakeholders with whom you need to secure commitment to the strategy
  4. how to devise and agree plans for securing commitment to an improvement strategy
  5. how to assess and manage the risks and benefits associated with securing commitment to improvement strategy, and its implications for organisational change and improvement
  6. the importance of contingency planning and how to do so effectively
  7. how to make critical decisions
  8. what skills are required to secure commitment to the strategy including, negotiating, influencing, persuading and agreeing and how to apply these skills at the appropriate level
  9. the internal and resource barriers to securing commitment to strategy, and the techniques that deal with these
  10. stakeholder and line management expectations and how they influence the commitment process
  11. how to make changes to plans and carry out corrective direction as circumstances dictate and the associated management of priorities and rationales for colleagues
  12. the communication channels used to inform, both formal and informal, and which to use dependent on the situation
  13. how to evaluate the success and impact of securing commitment
  14. the range of information sources and case studies available to support the rationale for improvement
  15. how to give and receive feedback about securing commitment and related management of change and improvement issues

Scope/range


Scope Performance


Scope Knowledge


Values


Behaviours


Skills


Glossary


Links To Other NOS


External Links


Version Number

3

Indicative Review Date

31 Jan 2025

Validity

Current

Status

Original

Originating Organisation

NSAFD

Original URN

IMPQI305

Relevant Occupations

Food Production Operatives, Manufacturing Technologies, Plant and Machine Operatives, Process Operatives, Process, Plant and Machine Operatives

SOC Code

8111

Keywords

Food; Operations; Manufacturing; Excellence; Improvement; Secure; Commitment;